Rattus steini Rümmler, 1935

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 659-660

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Rattus steini Rümmler, 1935 View in CoL . Z. Säugetierk., 10:115.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Weyland Range, Kunupi Mt .

DISTRIBUTION: Mid-montane elevations along Central Cordillera of Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea, as well as highlands along the N coast and on Huon Peninsula (see map in Taylor et al., 1982:243).

SYNONYMS: baliemensis, forsteri, hageni, rosalinda .

COMMENTS: Until Taylor et al.'s (1982) revision, the distinctness of steini was obscured by its historical allocation as a subspecies of either leucopus , mordax , ringens, ruber , or verecundus .